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Edition #6 - April 28, 2014

As you will discover during your first 20 minutes of browsing the site, we are very long-winded in these parts. But I am going to keep this newsletter short and sweet, because there is far too much to say.

Today is release day, and the Avail programming language is now live. The first released version of Avail is 1.0.0 DEV 2014-04-28. This is the first major development milestone. It is not a production release, and is not recommended for mission-critical use.

Today, we pushed more than one thousand new pages to the website. Most of them are the Avail APIs, which we call the Stacks, in honor of those old-fashioned bastions of learning, libraries[1], that some of us still remember. But also of note: